20 April 2019 | NewScientist | 39READ THE SMALL PRINT
It’s not just the protein
content that differs in
protein-fortified foods
Cereals
A 45 gram serving of Shreddies
Max Oat Granola contains 6g of protein
compared with 5g for Shreddies
Original. It also has 8g of sugar, while
the original version has 5.9g. Weetabix
Protein Crunch Original is 22 per cent
sugar – five times the proportion in
standard Weetabix. The fortified
product boasts 20 per cent protein
compared with 12 per cent in the
original.
Chocolate bars
A 51g Mars Protein bar contains
19g protein compared with 2.2g for
a standard bar. It also contains
13g sugar, more than a third of the
recommended adult daily intake in
the UK, and 4.6g fat. This is less than
a standard bar of the same weight,
which contains 30.5g sugar and
8.5g fat. And its price tag is about
£2.50 – roughly four times that of
a standard Mars.
Ice cream
Halo Top Vanilla Bean and Breyers
Delights Cookies & Cream flavours –
labelled as high protein – both contain
3.9g of protein per 100 millilitres.
This compares with 3g in the same
amount of Wall’s Soft Scoop Vanilla,
and 4g in Ben and Jerry’s Vanilla.
Wheyhey Chocolate ice cream does
pack in a lot more than usual: 7.5g of
protein per 100 ml.
Yogurts
Arla’s Strawberry Skyr, which carries
high-protein messaging on its
packaging, contains 9.2g protein per
100g, roughly double the proportion in
plain yogurt. It also contains 7.4g sugar
per 100g, which is more than a quarter
of the 30g daily maximum intake
recommended by the UK government.
Plain yogurts sold in supermarkets
contain 5g sugar, on average.